Mei Ah April 7 Releases
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Superkid (2006)
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Mei Ah April 7 Releases
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Superkid (2006)
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Universe March 16 Releases
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Frances Yip & HKCO (2 DVD Karaoke Edition)
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Universe March 10 Releases
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Cocktail (2006) Director: Herman Yau, Chin Long Cast: Sandy Lo, Race Wong, Endy Chow Synopsis "Half Man Zone" - This is a modern pub. Inside the pub, there is an afeard, puzzled lady sitting. She is the owner of this pub, her name is Candy. A popular song begins to play, Paul rushes to the bar.
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| Wednesday, 3/29/2006 |
Kam & Ronson Mid-April Releases
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Falling...In Love (2005) Director: Wang Ming-tai Cast: Lan Cheng-lung, Lee Kang-yi, Wan Fang, Hsu Kuei-ying Synopsis There are lovers who, despite loving each other, don't know how to love and express their love by torturing each other. Alan is trapped in three absurd relationships. His girlfriend Angel is deeply in love with him but Alan's detachment keeps letting her down and pushes her to a nervous breakdown. Belle has just fled from a broken marriage and rents the room next to Angel's; she also happens to have been a young love of Alan's, who Alan has not forgotten. Madame, 40 years old, spends her life waiting for her mafia boyfriend to come back, until one day Alan shows up and caresses her lonely heart...With a bold attempt to use cross processing procedure on colour reversal film stock, FALLING...IN LOVE beautifully unfolds these distorted and tangled relationships.
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Kam & Ronson April 7 Releases
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Holiday Dreaming (2004) Director: Hsu Fu-chun Cast: Tony Yang, Huang Hung-sheng, Chang Chun-ning, Huang Tai-an Synopsis Ah-Zhou, who is about to be honorably discharged from the military service, has a surreal dream. In the dream, he sees the dead body of Shing-Shing Chen, a classmate in elementary school from years back. Is this dream implying that Shing-Shing Chen might have died? Soon afterwards, Ah-Zhou gets an unexpected five-day vacation and decides to look for Shing-Shing Chen. Nevertheless, he quickly learns that the special vacation is for him and another soon-to-be-discharged solider, Xiao-Guei, to go after a deserter, Kuen-He, who ran away with weapons two days ago. Both of them are worried about this assignment because they, the old birds, used to pick on Kuen-He, a spring chicken. And Kuen-He is now a deserter, armed and dangerous. The following day, they arrive at Kuen-He's home in a little fisherman's village on the east coast. Although Kuen-He is nowhere to be found, they decide to forget about the assignment and to make it into a real vacation on the beach nearby. However, just as they are having fun and get ready to go back to the base, they run into Kuen-He unexpectedly. Kuen-He abducts all of them at gun point to a little house by the foot hill on the coast line, in fear that they may report him to the authorities...
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Mei Ah March 28 Releases
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Tanuki Goten (2005)
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IVL March 23 Shaw Brothers Releases
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Bloody Escape, The (1974) Director: Sun Chung Cast: Cheng Kuan-tai, Chen Wo-fu, Shih Szu Genre: Action Synopsis The great Sun Chung, lauded for his versatility and artistry, here directs one of his first martial arts epics (after having established his reputation in comedy and modern-day crime thrillers). He teams with real-life kung-fu champion Chen Kuan-tai and martial arts choreographer Liu Chia-yung (brother of the preeminent kung-fu film master Liu Chia-liang) to tell the tale of a bandit with a conscience who takes on the entire Wolfs' Head gang for the love of a good woman.
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Golden Lion, The (1973) Director: Ho Meng-hua Cast: Li Ching, Chao Hsiung Genre: Martial Arts Synopsis Director Ho Meng-hua is one of Shaw Studio's most versatile directors. He's helmed romances, mysteries, award-winning dramas, contemporary action films, historical costume dramas, fantasies, and, finally, popular swordplay movies. The title character in this one is a chivalrous thief who raises the jealous ire of the rival Red Shirt Gang. There's plenty of action in this adventure, which sweeps from the plains to the mountains ... to the sound of slashing swords.
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Pink Tears (1965) Director: Chin Chien Cast: Julie Yeh Fung, Ling Yun, Fung Bo-bo Genre: Drama Synopsis Julie Yeh Feng (The Shepherd Girl) gets a new melodramatic platform to showcase her versatility in this poignant tearjerker. Yeh plays socialite Pai Li-lan whose life is disrupted when she contracts tuberculosis. It is under new trying circumstances that love blossoms between Li-lan and Chang Chih-ping (Ling Yun), the music teacher of her daughter (Fung Bo-bo). Unfortunately, the odds seem stacked against their love for each other. Will the power of love be enough to see them through?
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Sons Of Good Earth (1964) Director: Hu King-chuan Cast: Betty Loh Tih, Peter Chen Ho, King Chuan Genre: Drama Synopsis Japan has Akira Kurosawa. India has Satyajit Ray. Hong Kong has King Hu. Although he made a previous film, The Story Of Sue San, uneder Li Han-hsiang's supervision, this was really his first full film, which he wrote, directed and co-starred in. His tale of the Sino-Japanese war is still an artistic and emotional triumph, and went on to win awards for Best Script, Best Editing, and the particularly prestigious Special Award for the Promotion of Ethnic Spirit.
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IVL March 9 Shaw Brothers Releases
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Fastest Sword, The (1968) Director: Pan Lei Cast: Chu Ching, Lu Ping Genre: Martial Arts Synopsis Pan Lei both wrote and directed this Chinese variation of The Gunfighter, Henry King's famous 1950 film about a persecuted fast-draw expert. Naturally, here, there's no pistols, only blades, as a great "swordfighter" learns humility after he is defeated by a master martial arts monk. But his reputation always precedes him, leading to danger, destruction, challenges, cruelty, kidnapping, and killing. Pan Lei would also go on to a certain "new wave" fame, as the writer of two of Jackie Chan's earliest starring roles: New Fist Of Fury and Spiritual Kung Fu.
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Man Of Iron (1972) Director: Chang Cheh, Pao Hsueh-li Cast: Chen Kuan-tai, Ching Li, Tien Ching Genre: Martial Arts Synopsis Chen Kuan-tai exuded incredible power on screen, which his directors used to great advantage in this fight-filled follow-up to the smash hit The Boxer Fom Shantung. All the lead character did was win some money gambling with a Shanghai gangleader's playboy son, but that's enough for the father and child to want obsessive revenge. It all culminates in an incredible climatic fight, choreographed by the legendary Liu Chia-liang and Chen Chuan, co-star of Bruce Lee's Fist Of Fury.
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Swordsman At Large (1971) Director: Hsu Tseng-hung Cast: Margaret Hsing Hui, Tina Chin Fei, Frankie Wei, Yu Feng Genre: Martial Arts Synopsis Frankie Wei Hung is the Swordsman At Large, who everyone wants to kill. They even create a superlative sword simply for this purpose, but the blade is soon coveted even more than the hero's death by it! Bandits, beauties, and blade masters battle for survival in this exciting story of deceit, betrayal, and death, expertly guided by the same director who brought The Twin Swords, The Thundering Sword, and The Sword And The Lute to the Shawscope screen.
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Pale Passion (1984) Director: Chin Ping-hsing Cast: Ai Ti, Chiang Li-ping, Chin Yen-ling Genre: Drama Synopsis In Pale Passion, Chin Ping-hsing's only directed film, he introduces the gorgeous Chiang Li-ping as a scorned wife in an unsettling story about adultery, cheating and spousal abuse which develops into a deadly love triangle. The vivacious and wild-eyed Elaine Chin Yen-ling, who starred in Jackie Chan's Gorgeous, plays the other woman, and teaches the hypocritical husband that what goes around, comes around, except when it returns, it can be much more damaging.
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Sinful Adulteress (1974) Director: Ho Meng-hua Cast: Chen Ping, Wang Hsia, Wang Ling, Chen Chun Genre: Erotic Synopsis Director Ho Meng-hua gave erotica more legitimacy as he joined the list of reputable directors that began shooting soft porn with Sinful Adulteress. Starring the busty Chen Ping as a young wife of an older man that can't satisfy her, and introducing the foxy Liu Hui-ling as the younger daughter of the old man's first wife, it's a sexcapade of licentious behavior that erupts through murder and greed.
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| Wednesday, 3/15/2006 |
Mega Star March 23 Releases
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McDull, The Alumni (2006) Director: Samson Chiu Cast: Ronald Cheng, Kelly Chen, Anthony Wong, Gigi Leung, Wilson Chen, Bibi Zhou, Josie Ho Synopsis In McDull, the Alumni, our protagonist has grown up. He is no longer the little boy who banters with his mates at school. How he wishes he could just go on bantering all day long with his mates at the renowned Flower on the Spring Field Kindergarten. But that is not to be. Like all grown-ups, he has to grapple with harsh reality. McDull and his mates are scattered all over the place. Each one of them has to find his or her own path. In each of their hearts, they know they have failed. Meanwhile, life goes on in the kindergarten. Someone strums a guitar and the pupils chime in to the song: Puff the magic dragon, lives by the sea... A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys. With hindsight, McDull believes this could well be the maxim of the Flower on the Spring Field Kindergarten alumni. Specs
Bonus Gifts:
Playing Cards 
Notebook 
Mini-Puzzle 
Bookmarks 
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Mega Star February 24 Releases
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Moonlight In Tokyo (2005) Director: Alan Mak, Felix Chong Cast: Leon Lai, Chapman To Synopsis Intellectually impaired he might be, JUN (Leon Lai) is only dumb but not silly. Abandoned by his family on a trip to Tokyo with only a few notes in his pocket, he thinks he has found his guardian angel when he bumps into a former classmate, HOI (Chapman To). But Hoi is no angel at all. He is just a grifter on the run from yakuza loan sharks. When YAN (Yang Kuei-mei), the owner of an escort service, is convinced the ingenuous Jun will make a perfect gigolo, Hoi decides to transform his pal into Tokyo’s most sought-after Lothario in order to eke out a living and to pay his debts. Together the odd couple thus embark on a hilarious adventure, or misadventure so to speak, worming their way into the hearts of desperate housewives and office ladies in Japan. Though Hoi constantly takes advantage of Jun in every possible way, Jun’s generosity and unquestionable trust gradually changes his cynical view of life. A magical bond soon develops between them, sealing their destiny in the most mysterious way. Specs
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Mei Ah March 10 Releases
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Wonderful Life [TV Series]
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Panorama Recent Releases
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Dragon In Fury Cast: Gordon Liu, Joey Meng Synopsis Chen Jun returns to shanghai to discover that his kung fu master,Fok Yun-Kap has dead under mysterious circumstances.Fok's funeral is disruped by representatives from a rival japanese martial arts school,who deliver an insulting Signboard that reads "Sick Men of Asia". Infuriated by this insult,Chen returns the sign to the japanese,and proceeds to beat the entire karate school into submission.Subsequently,he learns that Fok was murdered by the japanese gang,and that they are terrorizing his former school.He sets out on a bloody trail of vengeance.In the end,Chen must pay the ultimate price of his patriotism.
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Heroic Cops Director: Chan Chuen Cast: Chow Yun Fat, Danny Li, Ng Man Tat, Deannie Yip Synopsis Two cops are trying to capture a nasty crime boss.However,their mission is interrupted by a cruel hit man played by chow yun fat.Meanwhile,an episode is under development in the police headquarter where the superintendent secretly works with the triads.Even though he tries to maintain his integrity, his life is in hanger.
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McDull Prince De La Bun Box Set
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Love Letter (1995) Director: Shunji Iwai Cast: Miho Nakayama, Etsushi Toyokawa, Miki Sakai, Takashi Kashiwabara Synopsis Hiroko Watanabe (Miho Nakayama) is a young woman living in Kobe. Her fiance, Itsuki Fujii, was killed in a mountaineering accident, a tragedy she has not been able to recover from. One day she comes across Itsuki's old school yearbook and finds his old address in Hokkaido. Without giving it much thought, she writes a letter and sends it to that address, hoping that it would reach him in heaven. Meanwhile, in Otaru, Hokkaido, Itsuki Fujii (also played by Miho Nakayama) receives a letter that says, "Dear Itsuki Fujii. How are you? I am fine. Hiroko Watanabe." She has no idea who it's from and decides to writes back. When she receives another letter in reply, she goes to see Shigeru Akiba (Etsushi Toyokawa), a former mountaineering partner of Hiroko's fiancee who, after his partner's death, seriously considered marrying Hiroko whom he still loves. It doesn't take long for Hiroko to discover that she's been corresponding with a former classmate of her late fiance, a woman who coincidentally shares the same name as him. Through their exchanges, the two women begin to share memories of the dead Itsuki.
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Moonlight Serenade (1997) Director: Masahiro Shinoda Cast: Kyozo Nagatsuka, Hideyuki Kasahara, Jun Toda, Hinano Yoshikawa Synopsis "Moonlight Serenade" opens with a journalist reporting on the 1997 Kobe earthquake, as he remembers a trip made as a young boy. Then, he and his family took a boat trip from Awaji to Beppu in order to bury the ashes of his elder brother, killed in the just-ended WWII. He spends much of the trip trying to talk his elder brother out of running away. They encounter an array of characters on their journey. Most prominent among them a black marketeer who, like the elder brother, feels that the "new ways" can only benefit him, and work against the boys' father, who is strict and traditional.
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Tora-san's Many-Splintered Love (1981) Director: Yoji Yamada Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Keiko Matsuzaka Synopsis The 27th instalment in the Tora-san series. Tora meets a pretty woman Fumi, while on a peddling junket to a small island in the Inland Sea. Tora is magnetized by Fumi even though knowing little or nothing about her. Tora encounters Fumi again in Osaka. Then, he comes to know that Fumi makes her living as a geisha. Tora sends a postcard to Toraya in Shibamata to have his family know that he is having a good time with Fumi in Osaka. Fumi tells Tora she has a brother whom she has not seen since they were in childhood. Tora urges her to look for him. But to Fumi's dismay, they discover that his brother died of heart trouble only a few days before they approached. That night, Fumi drinks after a session with carousing guests and goes to visit Tora at the cheap hotel he stays. After lamenting her brother's death, she falls asleep with leaning on Tora's lap. He gently covers her with a blanket and silently leaves the room.
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Tora-san Series Box Set (Volume 1)
The first eight films in the Tora-san series.
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April Snow (2005) Director: Shin Joon-ho Cast: Bae Yong-joon, Son Ye-jin, Lim Sang-hyo, Chun Kook-huan, Kim Kwang-il Synopsis April Snow is a story about a man and a woman who face their spouses' accident and betrayal together and lose the balance on their lives. The man and the woman meet for the first time in an empty hallway in front of an operating room. As the two rush in upon hearing of their spouse's accident, they realize that the man's wife and the woman's husband had an affair together. They also realize that they share the same sadness. The two get lost in despair of confusion and anger but they unexpectedly fall in love and jump into the same "affair" as their spouse's did. They hesitate at this new love and feel more heartache and pain.
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A+Life (1998) Director: Jeong Kil-chae Cast: Lee Min-woo, Hwang Su-jeong Synopsis On the night of his highschool graduation, Yoon-joon's family is in a terrible car accident. Yoon-joon loses his mother and his father is paralyzed. The following years are very difficult for Yoon-joon. Eventually, he turns to a wealthy friend, Ju-hee, for assistance. She agrees to help by offering to pay for a nursing home. There is one condition, however--Yoon-joon must marry her. Yoon-joon realizes that he doesn't love her must now decide what to do.
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